Once MythTV has been setup there are a few options to allow playback of TV recordings from the Windows platform. The most obvious is MythTV itself which runs on Windows in addition to linux, FreeBSD and Mac OSX.

Once MythTV has been setup there are a few options to allow playback of TV recordings from the Windows platform. The most obvious is MythTV itself which runs on Windows in addition to linux, FreeBSD and Mac OSX.

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*[[Boxee]] - Boxee will play MythTV natively, just add it as a source.

*[[Boxee]] - Boxee will play MythTV natively, just add it as a source.

*[http://sudu.dk/mythtvplayer/ MythTV player] - A video player built for MythTV.

The following require Samba shares setup to view recordings

The following require Samba shares setup to view recordings

Latest revision as of 07:42, 3 December 2010

Once MythTV has been setup there are a few options to allow playback of TV recordings from the Windows platform. The most obvious is MythTV itself which runs on Windows in addition to linux, FreeBSD and Mac OSX.

Samba setup

Note that samba/cifs can be problematic is not recommended, it introduces latency and problems with file attributes. Some libraries used by MythTV cannot even open files on samba shares, e.g. Taglib, tag reading library in mythmusic.